Sociology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...including Plato, Polybius, Machiavelli, Vico, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, have treated political problems in a broader social context. Thus Montesquieu regarded the political forms of different states as a consequence of...